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From Object To Installation In Bruno Taut’S Exhibit Pavilions, Kai K. Gutschow
From Object To Installation In Bruno Taut’S Exhibit Pavilions, Kai K. Gutschow
Kai K. Gutschow
This paper, part of a JAE special issue on "Installations by Architects," investigates the artistic and philosophical origins of Bruno Taut’s Glashaus (1914) exhibit pavilion in order to reinterpret the famous building as an experimental, free-standing “installation” that rose above being merely a pragmatic exhibition space. In close collaboration with the critic Adolf Behne and the Expressionist poet Paul Scheerbart, Taut designed a three dimensional manifesto for a utopian “glass architecture” that sought to express “a higher passion to build.” Both the collaborative construction process he envisioned and the radical new experiences inside were intended as vehicles to greater cultural, …
An Ames Icon: A New Building And Expansion To Iowa State Center, M. Monica Gillen
An Ames Icon: A New Building And Expansion To Iowa State Center, M. Monica Gillen
M. Monica Gillen
The Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility in Ames, Iowa, has changed the rules of the practice game and how that game is played by Iowa State University athletics.